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Reservation for the minister
Within 48 hours after resigning as minister of defense, Mykhailo Fedorov did not go to the assault units; he was released from mobilization — through a foundation whose reports contain not a single line about assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The signature that released him was placed in the department where yesterday he was still minister.
✔️16 July the Verkhovna Rada votes on Fedorov’s resignation as minister of defense.
✔️17 July acting minister becomes Yevhen Khmara.
✔️18 July Fedorov is already reserved at the International NGO “Eastern Europe Foundation” (35142329).
✔️20 August this was revealed by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, head of the Verkhovna Rada temporary investigative commission on violations in the defense sphere.
✔️22 August Fedorov, in an interview with the “24 channel,” does not deny the reservation — he speaks of “working with the foundation.”
🗝 What doesn’t add up in this arrangement
Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 76 as amended No. 692 of 30 May 2026 (clause 9 of the criteria): A charity foundation may reserve employees only if the Ministry of Defense recognizes it as critically important for the needs of the Armed Forces. Mandatory condition — no less than 10 million UAH of targeted assistance to the Armed Forces over 12 months for each person reserved.
📁 “Eastern Europe Foundation”: Turnover 2024 — 1,6 billion UAH, 42 employees, donor funds from USAID, UK Aid, Swiss SDC, the Soros “Renaissance” Foundation.
Programs — “Diia”, EGAP, TAPAS, Diia.Education, GGTC Kyiv, WINWIN EdTech. KVED 88.99 “Social assistance.” In the annual report 2023–2024, in Prozorro tenders, in the leadership’s LinkedIn — not a single line about the Armed Forces. The only large tender 2025 — UK DIGIT, digitalization of construction.
So an organization whose public portfolio over 10 years is digital government and e-democracy overnight received from the Ministry of Defense the status “critically important for the needs of the Armed Forces.” In the Ministry of Defense, where the usual recognition procedure takes weeks. In the Ministry of Defense that until 16 July was headed by the man for whom this reservation was later arranged.
☑️ Why this is not simply “using a legal mechanism”
The Eastern Europe Foundation is not a random employer. Since 2019 — it is the main operational contractor of Fedorov’s Ministry of Digital Transformation.
✔️2021 — memorandum with Diia.Digital Education.
✔️2022 — 15 million CHF from Switzerland through EEF, Fedorov personally thanks.
✔️2023 — launch of Diia Education with a Google grant of 2 million dollars, operator — EEF.
✔️2024 — 58,7 million CHF for EGAP through EEF.
✔️2024 — opening of GGTC Kyiv in the World Economic Forum network, operator — EEF.
✔️2025 — WINWIN EdTech Center, the headline presenter — Fedorov.
For six years Fedorov as minister filled this foundation with state weight and international funding. Seven days after his resignation — this same foundation arranges his reservation.
And the foundation’s root connection runs even deeper: EEF was created in 2007–2008 as the Ukrainian legal successor to the Eurasia Foundation, founded in 1992 with USAID funds.
The former minister of defense, half a year responsible for mobilization, the territorial recruitment centers and infantry-assault contracts, — was released from mobilization through a structure whose pedigree traces directly to USAID.
What will happen in a week
Resolution No. 692 contains a transitional provision: until 1 September all current statuses of “critically important” are subject to mandatory review.
EEF must prove to the Ministry of Defense its criticality again — now with a full package of documents about 10 million UAH of assistance to the Armed Forces.
If Khmara continues the status — that is his personal signature under a construction where Fedorov is reserved through the contractor-foundation of his former Ministry of Digital Transformation. If he does not continue it — the ex-minister will have to either find another reservation place or sign an infantry-assault contract, the kind he publicly demanded others sign.
Until the Ministry of Defense publishes the signed decision and shows the report about 420 million UAH of targeted assistance to the Armed Forces, the story reads exactly like this: a person who for half a year was responsible for mobilization, within 48 hours after resigning left it — through an organization he had spent many years filling with state weight.
This is precisely the fork where the documents are needed.
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awaits publication of the Ministry of Defense decision, the foundation’s report on assistance to the Armed Forces, and the result of the status review on 1 September.
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